Ratepayers elected the mayor and 10 councillors based on their promise (expressed or implied) to work for the benefit of Redland ratepayers.
Since their election, have councillors kept their promise?
Have they provided any significantly improvements to the amenities or facilities that councils are responsible for?
Have there been improvements to Redlands' parks, sporting fields, waterways and town beautification?
Any observation suggests little has changed even with Redlands' exorbitant rates.
Council decisions appear to only revolve around another development. How many skinny houses can be squeezed into an area? How many koala trees can be destroyed in the process?
Improvements to benefit ratepayers receive little or no consideration. Development seems to control this council.
Councillors were elected on trust to provide the civic benefits for which rates were designed. This administration just seems to ignore what is its primary responsibility.
This council seems hell bent on destroying the Redland uniqueness by trying to turn it into another suburban jungle.
Councillors just decide what ratepayers are going to get whether that is what ratepayers want, need or like. Even any objections to decisions have little or no effect.
To fund these developments, councillors show little consideration for people's ability to pay their exorbitant rates.
A recent media survey compared the average rates of all South East Queensland councils. It indicated Redland ratepayers are slugged with rates that are $400 to $500 more per ratepayer than any other SEQ council.
Ratepayers may not be aware how much of their rate money subsidises developer infrastructure costs.
Our mayor when announcing another large development, never mentions how many millions of ratepayers' dollars will be used to cover these costs.
It would appear Redland ratepayers are being dudded with little return for their horrendous rates.
Don Duncan, Cleveland
